Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 688 - 674: Ten Thousand Year Volcano, Moon Gazing Rhino! (4/18)_1

Chapter 688: Chapter 674: Ten Thousand Year Volcano, Moon Gazing Rhino! (4/18)_1

[Extra update!] Under Xiao Chen’s care, the three elders crossed the Thunder Tribulation of the Layered Tower Realm without any dangers, forming their own Martial Arts Tower. However, the quality of these Martial Arts Towers was not very high.

Among the three, the one with the highest quality Martial Arts Tower belonged to the second elder, Lin Shan, who had a mid-level Martial Arts Tower of grade five. The Grand Elder, Ironstone, had a mid-level Martial Arts Tower of grade four, and the third elder, Xiao Tan, had only a lower grade Martial Arts Tower of grade three. This was possible due to the effect of the miraculous Purple Crystal Ascendant Vine, which elevated each of their Martial Arts Towers by one grade.

However, once the multicolored Sky Mending Fruits mature in the Mountain and River Herb Garden, the Martial Arts Towers of the three elders could be elevated by another grade.

Regardless, it is a happy event that the three Grand Elders have been promoted to the Layered Tower Realm, with their lifespan dramatically increasing to a thousand years. Moreover, all three of them are in charge of tribal affairs and do not frequently participate in the tribe’s external battles.

Ten Thousand Fire Mountain Range.

Three days later, Xiao Chen appeared in a flame-filled mountain range, surrounded by active volcanoes continuously erupting with blazing magma.

This place is the largest volcanic area in the Border Wasteland Region. It can be said that not a single peak in this mountain range is dormant; every moment, they are erupting with rolling magma towards the outer world.

The magma gurgled, emitting a scorching breath. The dense elements of fire behaved as if they possessed life, exploding with heat. A thick smell of sulphur pervaded the area, and the sky above the volcano was covered in layers of black smoke, spreading miles away.

The surging heat waves greeted Xiao Chen head-on. The location he occupied was not the most majestic and towering volcanic mouth within these volcanoes, but a short mountain that was only over three hundred feet high. This was a volcano that was inconspicuous in the Ten Thousand Fire Mountain Range.

However, this inconspicuous volcano had a diameter of a thousand feet, far exceeding the volcano that was formed in the Gu Yuan Tribe Mountain City due to the rupture of the earth veins.

This volcanic area in the Border Wasteland Region has been around for thousands of years. Even under the entire Flame Mountain Range, Xiao Chen could feel the activity of the earth veins, as if a great dragon was rolling underneath. Every time the earth vein dragon roared, the entire volcanic mountain range would welcome a collective roar of magma.

The rich land of flames gathered the dense fire attribute of Heaven and Earth’s Vital Energy, and after burning for hundreds of thousands of years, this volcano is also a treasure trove. Naturally, there are warriors who come here to look for fire attribute casting materials or even spirit medicines.

However, after being eroded over these years, there are few volcanoes in this Flame Mountain Range that have existed for tens of thousands of years left. Most of them have disappeared due to the changes in Earth veins, and thus new volcanoes have been derived.

There is a saying that in the existence of ten thousand year-old volcanoes, there is a cosmos in the depth of magma. It either coalesces the divine light of fire, or breeds spirit items of Heaven and Earth. The rank of the spirit items also depends on the longevity of the volcano where they are located. It is rumored that within the deep of a million-year-old volcano, elements of fire transform into a dragon that stands the trial of Heaven’s Tribulation and breaks through the sky.

Therefore, based on the time of existence, volcanoes in this Flame Mountain Range are also classified into different tiers: hundred years, thousand years, and ten thousand years. One can only imagine the spirit items that volcanoes that have nurtured for ten thousand years contain within their magma interior.

Xiao Chen didn’t come here to look for spirit items, but to find volcanoes. The casting of divine weapons and refinement of pills in the tribe cannot do without fire. Although alchemists can condense their own furnace fire, the furnace fire formed by lower-level alchemists cannot be compared to the elemental fire naturally born between Heaven and Earth.

At this moment, Xiao Chen has penetrated thousands of miles deep into the Flame Mountain Range using his strength, with thick flames rendering the surrounding air distorted. Above the sky vault, volcanic ashes had spread all over, obstructing the sunlight. In the volcano’s mouth, that occasionally flashes with fires, golden lava was gushing out.

Hum!

Suddenly, Xiao Chen saw a divine brilliance blooming in the dim sky before him. Immediately, Xiao Chen felt an enormous force rolling under the earth, converging towards the place where the divine brilliance was shining.

The golden divine brilliance was mixed with a hint of fire’s godliness.

Ten Thousand Year Volcano!

Immediately, Xiao Chen was startled. Such might could only come from the divine object incubated within a ten thousand year volcano. The next moment, Xiao Chen transformed into a ray of light and rushed towards the site where the divine brilliance was shining.

Xiao Chen soon arrived at the place where the divine radiance was shining.

This was a five hundred feet high volcano, and the diameter of its mouth was up to a thousand feet. The surrounding magma had been scorched by the flames and transformed into a semi-translucent red crystal that looked like Luli.

In front of him, the golden magma was splattering in all directions. The rolling, golden-red magma was as shiny as jasper, with golden mist around it. The aura it emitted suppressed all the volcanoes within dozens of miles. It was as if a sun was embedded on the Earth.

Such a pure and flawless golden magma surge. Underneath the rock wall, a golden ancient tree grew out of the rolling golden-red magma. There was no scent of being scorched at all, but it emitted a fascinating fragrance.

Crimson Flame Sandalwood!

This spiritual wood, growing amidst flames, only grows a foot in a thousand years. The one before Xiao Chen now is ten feet high, proving that this volcano has existed for at least ten thousand years.

Clearly, this Crimson Flame Sandalwood has been enveloped in flowing magma all this while. It emerged only because of the volcanic eruption this time. In addition, this location is deep within the entire Flame Mountain Range, and the temperature is terrifyingly high. Even an ordinary venerable figure would find it hard to venture this deep. Xiao Chen could only reach this place by virtue of his Golden Battle Body, these circumstances allowed this Crimson Flame Sandalwood to survive until this day.

Crimson Flame Sandalwood has two uses: when cut down and made into incense, it can nourish blood qi and strengthen the body. Before a child builds their martial arts foundation, it has an unimaginable effect, and if refined, one could even comprehend the mysteries of fire.

Boom boom boom!

Above the sky vault, a huge spatial rift suddenly opened, and an immortal brilliance poured down, enveloping this volcano and the three surrounding volcanoes, all of which were covered within it. Although these other three volcanoes did not exist for ten thousand years, they stood for thousands of years. Therefore, Xiao Chen took them all into the Mountain and River Seal World in one fell swoop.

These few volcanoes were placed by Xiao Chen in the Secret Realm Space where the Hundred Herbs Hall was located. The tribe’s alchemist could, using some special methods, pull out the flames at the center of the volcano for use in alchemy.

After the four volcanoes were included in the Mountain and River Seal, only a large fiery pit spanning several miles was left in its place. Soon, raging blazing magma collected and formed a lava lake.

Xiao Chen did not continue towards the center of the Flame Mountain Range. The temperature inside, even his Golden Battle Body, could not resist being burnt to ashes.

After collecting this ten-thousand-year-old volcano, it seemed that his good luck had been exhausted. Half a day later, Xiao Chen found a volcano that was almost eight thousand years old and gathered it into the Secret Realm where the Divine Weapon Hall was located to be used for weapon forging.

Deeper in the Dragon Fall Mountain Range.

Roar!

A giant demon ape forty feet tall was sent flying by Xiao Chen’s fist. The demon ape’s bloodshot eyes flickered with madness, but even its hill-like body was no match for Xiao Chen. With an Iron Fist, Xiao Chen displaced its internal organs, and blood spurted wildly from its mouth.

"Won’t submit!"

This was a ferocious beast at the beginning of four stars, comparable to the Human Race Venerable Realm, but facing Xiao Chen now, it was much weaker.

Wu!

Eventually, this demon ape crawled to the ground, lowering its hideous head in front of Xiao Chen. Soon, Xiao Chen kept this giant demon ape into the Mountain and River Seal Space. This four-star demon ape was the fourth four-star ferocious beast he had subdued.

In one day of being in the Dragon Fall Mountain Range, apart from the four four-star ferocious beasts, hundreds of three-star beasts were taken into the Mountain and River Seal Space. As for the two-star beasts, they were directly included in the space as soon as they were spotted. However, compared to the secret realm of ferocious beasts in the Palace of the Sacred Beast that Xiao Chen had partitioned off, there was almost one hundred thousand miles of space. These ferocious beasts were still too few.

"It seems that there are not many ferocious beasts in this region, I need to change places."

After collecting the demon ape, Xiao Chen sighed. Most of the ferocious beasts in the Dragon Fall Mountain Range within a thirty-thousand-mile radius had been swept away by him. However, he planned to change to another region to avoid attracting the attention of the powerful beasts in the depths of the Dragon Fall Mountain Range. Rumor has it that a Beast King resided in the depths of the Dragon Fall Mountain Range that spanned the Desolate Wilds, and it was a six-star existence.

Following the direction of the Dragon Fall Mountain Range, Xiao Chen moved from the western part of the Border Wasteland Region to the southeast. However, he only ventured a maximum of one hundred thousand miles into the Dragon Fall Mountain Range. As a result, there were nearly a hundred more four-star level beasts in the secret realm of Ferocious Beast, but the strongest one was comparable to the Human Race Venerable Realm — a peak four-star level beast.

The number of stars of a ferocious beast and the division of human martial arts are not entirely harmonious. After warriors advance to the Layered Tower Realm, especially after they reach the Stage Six Realm, the gap between each stage can be described as differing as Heaven and Earth, and so is it for the ferocious beasts, with even more vague divisions of strength.

Therefore, warriors divide the strength of ferocious beasts according to the human martial arts. The strength of a three-star ferocious beast is between Stage One and Stage Five of the Layered Tower Realm, and some gifted exotic beasts can have strengths comparable to Stage Six at the three-star level.

Four-star ferocious beasts correspond to the Six to Eight Stages of Human’s Layered Tower Realm, while five-star beasts correspond to the Human Warrior’s Ninth Stage to Half-King Realm. Of course, this is just a rough division, but it has been passed down for countless ages.

Now, Xiao Chen appeared at the top of a thousand-foot ancient mountain. He looked somewhat embarrassed; his aura was completely contained. About thirty miles away from him, there was a valley where a group of ferocious beasts lived, numbering no less than ten thousand.

Dragon Blood Moon Gazing Rhinoceros!

Dragon Species Exotic Beast, they lived in herds, and before Xiao Chen was a herd of Dragon Blood Moon Gazing Rhinoceros. As for why Xiao Chen was somewhat embarrassed, he was driven out by this herd of rhinos. Although most of the tens of thousands of rhinos are of one or two-star level, and there are hundreds of those at the three-star level, the king of these rhinos is a late four-star beast, whose strength is enough to rival a great Human Race Venerable at the Seventh Stage of the Layered Tower Realm.

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